The places that built Texas still have stories to tell.
Jonny Goodday documents overlooked buildings, roadside originals, and the people who keep their memory alive.
History is still standing, if you know where to look.
From quiet sanctuaries and fading factory walls to theaters, diners, and roadside landmarks, this is a field journal of Texas architecture and the lives held inside it.
Field research, interviews, archives, and original photography reveal what each place remembers.
People, architecture, and atmosphere are preserved in motion so every place can speak for itself.
Objects, photographs, and original pieces carry the character of these places beyond the page.
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New fieldwork and archive stories as they join the journal.
The Home the Woodmen Left Behind: Memory and Loss in Sherman
Read the storySherman’s Woodmen Circle Home sheltered widows, orphans, and older members for decades. After abandonment, fire, folklore, and demolition, the people who lived there remain the truest history.
Columns for the People: Inside Fort Worth’s Central Post Office
Read the storyOpened in 1933, Fort Worth’s monumental central post office turned an everyday public service into an architectural promise of order, beauty, and connection.
Who Will Fund Dallas’s Thanks-Giving Square? | Jonny Goodday
Read the storyInside Dallas’s Thanks-Giving Square, a spiral chapel turns gratitude into architecture. Explore its history, mission, and the funding questions shaping its future.
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Ridgmar Mall’s Last Chapter: From West Fort Worth Landmark to Distribution Center
Read the storyRidgmar Mall was once one of west Fort Worth's busiest gathering places. Now, as the fading mall faces a future as Ridgmar 30 Logistics Crossing, Jonny Goodday photographs…
Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells: History and Restoration
Read the storyExplore the Baker Hotel in Mineral Wells, its 1929 opening, Spanish Revival architecture, long silence, and restoration toward a planned 2028 return.
Fort Worth’s Swift Staircase Is Now Officially Endangered
Read the storyThe surviving Swift & Company employee staircase and Victorian-era wall in the Fort Worth Stockyards have been named among the city’s most endangered historic places. See the photographs, …
Fort Worth T&P Warehouse | Preservation and Future
Read the storyExplore the history, architecture, decline, and uncertain future of the Fort Worth T&P Warehouse beside the railroad tracks.
Marty Leonard Community Chapel: A Fort Worth Landmark
Read the storyExplore Fort Worth’s Marty Leonard Community Chapel, Fay Jones’s luminous masterpiece of brick, mahogany, glass, sacred geometry, and shifting light.
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Short films from the road, architecture, atmosphere, interviews, and the details a still photograph cannot quite hold.
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Meet Jonny Goodday.
Photographer, filmmaker, researcher, and collector of the stories hiding in plain sight across Texas.
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